and that struck me as odd because she got the town a tax exemption, after all. and so my students were able to bring to that the idea that maybe she was a little bit bullied as a girl. and we do know from the sources that around the age of 16 when she left home for the first time, her family household had had become very repressive. her brothers were tattling on her about the fact she was going off and talking to people in other towns, and her father threatened to drown her if she went off to war. so they tried to marry her off, and joan actually was, went on her own and fought a marriage contract and won. and so she was not the fun-loving girl. she was a more than average pie cross. she would go on little pilgrimages to places and, again, was a little bit odd according to the local people. but she got her way. she went on two separate missions, if you will, to see the captain to try to get him to send her to the king of france. and it was only a third interview with the duke of lorraine, and at that point he gave the go ahead for her. they had a very, very mixe